Osoyoos Persists

Two area women launched an exhibition of paintings and fabric sculptures on Saturday, Oct. 7 at The Art Gallery Osoyoos (TAGO) titled Wings & Whimsical Things. The show runs until Oct. 28.

Maureen Walker, a Keremeos-area artist who has displayed at TAGO in the past, does fabric sculpture figures, some of them life sized.

Kathryn Ross, who retired to Coldstream near Vernon, paints birds and animals, usually in oils, but sometimes acrylics, when she is not riding her horses.

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Artists On Main Osoyoos opened their annual show at The Art Gallery Osoyoos on Saturday, Sept. 9. “Through the Artists’ Eye” runs until Saturday, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023.

The show presents a representative sampling of paintings by the Osoyoos-based group, and includes acrylics, watercolours, oils and mixed media.

Artists on Main Osoyoos welcomes both accomplished artists and those who are newer to painting and wish to improve. They meet at Studio 89 above the gallery and have about 70 members. Continue reading “Virtual Gallery: Artists on Main open annual show at TAGO”

The annual Summer Artisan Market opened Saturday, June 17, 2023 at The Art Gallery Osoyoos and runs until Labour Day, Monday, Sept. 4.

The market features the work of Osoyoos artists and artisans and includes affordable pieces from painters, potters, photographers, quilters and others. It is geared both to local shoppers and browsers and tourists.

During the summer, some artists may change their exhibit space, so it’s worth checking back again throughout the summer to see what is new.

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Penticton painter Lyse Deselliers has returned to The Art Gallery Osoyoos with a new solo show, The Food We Grow.” The show opened Wednesday, May 24, 2023 and it runs until June 14.

Deselliers, who was born in Quebec City, last had a solo exhibition at TAGO in April 2021, when the theme was water. She takes the themes seriously, and for this show about growing food, she interviews local farmers or prints accounts by them. It’s a feast for the mind as well as the eye. Continue reading “Lyse Deselliers solo exhibit features ‘The Food We Grow’”

The Desert Sage Spinners & Weavers Guild opens a show, “Fibre Arts,” at The Art Gallery Osoyoos on Saturday, April 29, 2023.

The show runs until Saturday, May 20.

The guild has more than 60 members from such Okanagan-Similkameen communities as Oliver, Osoyoos, Summerland, Penticton, Kaleden, Okanagan Falls, Cawston and Keremeos. The guild has been active for nearly half a century.

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The South Okanagan-Similkameen Chapter of the Federation of Canadian Artists opens their exhibition of paintings on Saturday, March 4 at The Art Gallery Osoyoos. The juried show, “Beauty Is In…,” runs until Saturday, March 25, 2025.

The group consists of painters from Osoyoos and Oliver as well as those as far north as Summerland, as well as the Similkameen. Continue reading “Gallery shows paintings by local chapter of Federation of Canadian Artists”

The Osoyoos Quilters Guild is opening its exhibition “Quilts Etc.” at The Art Gallery Osoyoos on Saturday, February 4. The show runs until Saturday, February 25, 2023.

The exhibition includes the raffle of a quilt donated by former member Lorna Fairbanks before she passed away several years ago. It was finished by guild members.

The raffle is being held to raise funds to purchase supplies for the community and charitable projects the Guild runs.

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Local painter Pam Duncan’s oil painting “Osoyoos Evening Glow”  was selected the winner of The Art Gallery Osoyoos’ Poster Contest.

The image was selected by a panel of outside judges, who also considered submissions by other local artists. The judges did not know the identities of the artists when they made their decision. An exhibition of the entries opened Saturday, January 7 at the gallery and runs until Saturday, January 28, 2023.

Duncan leans toward landscapes and paints with both oil and acrylic. She often paints in plein air. She’s a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA) and Artists on Main.

The winning entry shows Osoyoos Lake reflecting evening colours with mountains in the background. Continue reading “2023 Poster contest winner and entries on display at The Art Gallery Osoyoos”

The annual Christmas Artisan Market, “Gifts Galore” opens Saturday, November 5 at The Art Gallery Osoyoos and runs until Thursday, December 22.

The market features the work of Osoyoos artists and artisans and includes affordable pieces from painters, potters, photographers, quilters and others. It is geared to local shoppers and browsers, and tourists, but the focus is on items that make great holiday gifts.

Throughout the exhibition, some artists may change their exhibit space, so it’s worth checking back again during the next month and a half to see what is new.

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